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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1912
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner outlines carrier delivery rates 96.00 yearly 82.50 half year 1.28 three months or 10 cents a week. It urges prompt reporting of late or missing delivery and explains carrier collection rules. It also notes local commerce plans a summer push and upcoming events and city matters including a Memorial Day edition and automobile safety measures.
The Tennessee Democratic Party remains divided after the Carmack era and prohibition disputes, risking the governorship and a Senate seat. With Senator Robert L. Taylor's death prompting Republican Newell Sanders to be named as his successor, the party must heal rifts to prevent losing Tennessee's electoral votes in the upcoming presidential contest. The looming gubernatorial election and a tight Senate battle heighten the stakes for party unity and electoral leverage.
A editorial argues against judicial recall as anarchy and warns that only constitutional amendments and legislative repeal provide orderly remedies. It stresses court independence and the people's sovereignty to amend constitutions or repeal laws, not by recalling judges or decisions.
In Nebraska a speaker presents That Boy with passion as a telegram arrives announcing the death of his young student in Georgia. He continues the address, leaving the crowd unaware of the tragedy and the cost of the entertainment. A later verse item items Mary and her lamb and a long cross country trip with travel gear and trunks.
April 12 highlights events from 1695 Lafontaine death to 1911 notes including Jefferson born in Virginia 1743 and McGhee born 1825. Baseball notes cover Somers in Toledo, Boozer, Johnson, Donlin, Baker and Schulte with anecdotes on trousers incident involving Ping Bodie and Halifax league plans.
The text marks the 67th birthday of Bishop Herman J. Alerding, Roman Catholic bishop of Fort Wayne. Born in Newport Kentucky on April 13 1845 to German parents, he studied at Vincennes Indiana St Thomas Kentucky and St Meinrad Abbey in Spencer County Indiana. At twenty three he was ordained.
Two city ordinances address automobile signals and stopping near stopped street cars in Athens. The first forbids using cut out signals due to noise and dust, with violators punished under City Code Section 299 of 1900. The second requires drivers to signal and stop when approaching a stopped street car allowing passengers to alight, with penalties likewise under Section 299 of 1900. Both repeal conflicting ordinances.
A. Dodson of Dallas Georgia writes that Foley Kidney Pills relieved his kidney pains after other medicines failed. He credits two bottles with greater relief and satisfaction than anything previously taken, and notes the pills are for sale by all dealers.
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